This lecture was presented at the Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, on October 5, 2021.
The lecture strives to make several points.
- As a species we have adapted to large climate change, especially at the end of the ice age.
- Compared to our ancestors, we have knowledge about how the climate will change in the coming decades and centuries. Though this is scary and daunting, it should also be empowering and provide us with the opportunity to make good decisions.
- We have to move past thinking of adaptation as protect and persist.
- We need to think in terms of systems, making our built environment a fluid part of Earth’s nature. How does it all fit together?
- We need to move past a psychology of past-preserving into a behavior of future-building
- Mitigation needs to be part of adaptation.
- The framing of climate change as something external to us, that can be fixed and forgotten, will not be the formula for success.
- How do we adapt such that mitigation is, simply, part of what we do?
- We will need to adapt in such a way that mitigation is a natural outcome.
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